fashion | in light of #MBFWCT, here’s a #TBT

when the majority of south africa’s blogging elite live in cape town, it’s very difficult not to feel some ridiculous aspect of fomo for the mercedes benz fashion week. with brands such as kluk cgdt and gavin rajah showcasing their work over the next three days, my heart yearns to be there… but since i cant visit cape town, i decided to visit memory lane. four months ago was merecedes benz fashion week joburg and i had the pleasure of seeing tart, selfi, adriaan kuiters and maxhosa by laduma. i posted some stuff on it here. but, as always, you never quite get around to posting all the stuff, so i thought i should relive those glory moments – got to meet jerri mokgofe, trevor stuurman, raya rossi, nhlanhla nciza (of mafikizolo) and patrice motsepe, and that was a pretty big deal to me.

i felt like a mountain that entire evening, being 6’3 in those heels (head in the clouds, hallelujerrr) and i looked sort of like a cool-attorney (in retrospect, though – i still dig it), and i was only mildly anxious being in a room of cool-looking strangers (eek), but it was still an epic experience. read more for more pictures & attempted-ly witty captions.

my sister and i basically arrived to a turn up with mafikizolo giving us life.

nhlanhla herself – her skin is literally gold. she’s without flaws.

probably one of the only times i’ll be this close to a david tlale original. #butthatsnoneofmybusiness 🙁

this detailing left me breathless.

because also us plebs want to have the brilliant cheekbones that we weren’t #blessed enough to be born with.

thank you space for the tickets once again!

unbeknownst to me at the time, i had been right in front of/next to/diagonal from mahlatse james and photographed him doing his thang. i love his hat.

speaking of hats, the iconic trevor stuurman is never far from his. i actually embarrassed myself a little bit my fawning over this moment so hard, but whatever. much excitement.

raya rossi also being a part of the cool-hat-crew in this stunning monochrome piece. i was also being a bit of an embarrassing fan girl in this moment but whatever. she’s amazing.